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Open Source Facebook-ing
Firefox Songbird WordPress While the general population probably still has no idea what it means for something to be “open source“, the movement is growing. Firefox, Songbird and WordPress, among others, are software tools that are increasing the visibility of the open source value system which emphasizes open access to information about a product, most […]
Shout-Out to DigiActive
A couple of days ago, (April 10, 2009 at 12:22am to be exact) Frederick Noronha posted a great little peek at Social Source Commons on DigiActive. DigiActive is “…dedicated to helping grassroots activists around the world use the Internet and mobile phones to increase their impact. Our goal is a world of activists made more […]
Penguin Day San Francisco 2009
Aspiration, Social Source Commons mama org, is proud to announce that Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco! Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:00am – 5:00pm Odd Fellows Hall 26 7th St. (@ Market St.) San Francisco, CA What is a Penguin Day, you may ask? Well, dear nonprofit-software-interested friends, Penguin Days are designed to let […]
Joomla! Day Las Vegas
This past weekend, I attended another glorious Joomla! Day in Las Vegas. For those of you who have never heard of Joomla!, it’s an open source content management system that allows you to create dynamic websites without the need to know code. Surrounding it is an increasingly vibrant community churning out extensions, new blocks of […]
SSC’s Need for Speed
Website speed is one of the most important aspects of a user’s browsing experience. With high-speed internet, we expect pages to load instantly every time. So you can imagine our frustration when Social Source Commons began to drag. Because we constantly want to be improving the SSC experience for our users, we decided to switch […]
A Couple Great Posts about Tools
With all of the news of the not-so-super economy and the impending zombie revolution, Social Source Commons users can probably use any advice that they can get about selecting the right software tools for their nonprofit. A couple of posts by some great NPTech-ers caught my eye and I wanted to push them your way: […]
Feeds
We all know that you can pull feeds from Social Source Commons. Through RSS, you can be automatically notified for all sorts of changes from new users to new toolboxes. RSS feeds are a great way to get a wide range of updates from all over the internet together in one place. Similar to the […]
Social Media 2009?
As we flip the calendars to January 2009, I wanted to showcase some of the tool predictions that people have speculated about. Beth Kanter posted a great summary of Peter Kim‘s Social Media Predictions of 2009 which collects predictions from a number of social media and nonprofit tech types. But, since we’re all about the […]
Nonprofit Software Searching Frustration
Searching for a software tool can sometimes be the hardest part about getting a specific task done. As a nonprofit, tight budgets, multi-tasking and limited time make it so that when you want to find a new software tool, you just want to find something that works right then. But, no, my nonprofit friend. This […]
It’s Twitter Time
With all of our talk about Twitter, we’ve decided to join the 21st century and start up a little feed for ourselves. You can now follow Social Source Commons at http://www.twitter.com/SSC_Tweets. All you have to do is click “Follow” and you can get up-to-the-minute updates from everyone’s favorite nonprofit tools resource. Also, be sure to […]
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